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http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HJ_5.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
H. J. Res. 5:
111st Congress
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2009-2010
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second...
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
Overview
Sponsor:
Rep. José Serrano [D-NY](no cosponsors)
Cosponsors [as of 2009-01-14]
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Text:
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Status:
Occurred: Introduced Jan 6, 2009
Not Yet Occurred: Reported by Committee (pending)
Not Yet Occurred: Voted on in House (pending)
Not Yet Occurred: Voted on in Senate (pending)
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Last Action:
Jan 6, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Related:
See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms that have been applied to this resolution. Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.